Diaries, letters & journals

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Book Cover:  After the Crisis:The Griffith Review Edition 25
By Authors Various & Julianne Schultz

The global financial crisis is different to other recessions. It challenges many economic fundamentals. Its resolution will fundamentally change the world and the way business is done.

After the Crisis  projects this new future, analyses the causes and historic parallels, examines the limits of the growth, and graphically reports what is happening on the front-line around the world. Griffith REVIEW ...

The global financial crisis is different to other recessions. It challenges many economic fundamentals. Its resolution will fundamentally change the world and the way business is done.

After the Crisis ...

Published: 31/08/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921520761
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: An Explorer's Notebook
By Tim Flannery

We were flying over a landscape that looked primeval. Way below there were pyramid-shaped peaks covered in tropical forest... Going into the forests of Papua New Guinea today is like taking a trip back in time to Australia 15 million years ago. Then, even in the central desert, there were permanent rivers and lakes surrounded by tropical vegetation. Dolphins and crocodiles lived in the waters, flamingos...

We were flying over a landscape that looked primeval. Way below there were pyramid-shaped peaks covered in tropical forest... Going into the forests of Papua New Guinea today is like taking a trip back...

Published: 04/08/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921351655
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Family Law
By Benjamin Law

Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions: Why won't his Chinese dad wear made-in-China underpants? Why was most of his extended family deported in the 1980s? Will his childhood dreams of Home and Away stardom come to nothing? What are his chances of...

Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions: Why won't...

Published: 01/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863955317
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Trouble: Evolution of a Radical / Selected Writings 1970-2010
By Kate Jennings

In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally into silence with a pull-no-punches speech calling for women's empowerment.  Brave, impassioned and searingly funny, it set the tone for an unconventional life.  A few years later she was on her way to New York, where she would make her name as a writer, fall in love and, as a Wall Street speechwriter, enjoy ringside seats...

In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally into silence with a pull-no-punches speech calling for women's empowerment.  Brave, impassioned and searingly funny, it set the tone...

Published: 12/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863954679
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the evolution of a writer through his work at the magazine that he helped to put on the map. Jann S.Wenner, Hunter Thompson's editor and friend for nearly thirty-five years, has chosen the pieces, including many never collected before. 
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the evolution of a writer through his work at the magazine that he helped to put on the map. Jann S.Wenner, Hunter Thompson's editor and friend for nearly thirty-five years, has chosen the pieces, including many never collected before. 
Published: 13/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846145926
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me
A hilarious love letter to the hater in us all
A hilarious love letter to the hater in us all
Published: 05/06/2012
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742536040
Book Cover:  Six Women of Letters: Penguin Shorts

In homage to that most civilised of activities, letter writing, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes.

In homage to that most civilised of activities, letter writing, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen...

Published: 23/04/2012
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742535760
Book Cover: The Dreaming and Other Essays
By W E H Stanner

This is a collection of work by W.E.H. Stanner, one of Australia's finest essayists. A superb anthropologist, he was both perceptive and prophetic about the Aboriginal people he knew; yet his work has been out of print and astonishingly hard to find for many years. The revival of these essays, selected and introduced by Robert Manne, is a significant event.

This is a collection of work by W.E.H. Stanner, one of Australia's finest essayists. A superb anthropologist, he was both perceptive and prophetic about the Aboriginal people he knew; yet his work has...

Published: 02/03/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780977594924
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover: The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
By Lucy Norton

A compelling insight into the French 19th-century painter's life and times.

Delacroix's journal - fresh and unselfconsciously spontaneous - is one of art history's most important documents.

A compelling insight into the French 19th-century painter's life and times.

Delacroix's journal - fresh and unselfconsciously spontaneous - is one of art history's most important documents.

Published: 31/08/1995
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780714833590
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Reporting Conflict: New Directions in Peace Journalism
By Jake Lynch & Johan Galtung

Introducing a compelling new series that offers leading international thinking on conflict and peacebuilding.

Journalists control our access to news. By pitching stories from particular angles, the media decides the issues for public debate. In Reporting Conflict , one of two inaugural titles in the New Approaches to Peace and Conflict series, Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung challenge reporters to tell...

Introducing a compelling new series that offers leading international thinking on conflict and peacebuilding.

Journalists control our access to news. By pitching stories from particular angles, the media...

Published: 01/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702237676
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover: The Real 'Dad's Army': The War Diaries of Col. Rodney Foster
By Rodney Foster

'The extraordinary thing about this book is that it is the real thing. Readers can finally find an authentic insight into this extraordinary time'  Jim Perry (co-creator of Dad's Army), The Times

'The extraordinary thing about this book is that it is the real thing. Readers can finally find an authentic insight into this extraordinary time'  Jim Perry (co-creator of Dad's Army), The Times...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670919802
RRP: $19.99
Book Cover:  I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me
A hilarious love letter to the hater in us all
A hilarious love letter to the hater in us all
Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670076932
RRP: $27.99
Book Cover:  Women of Letters

In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter.

In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter.

Published: 31/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670076093
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Joys of Excess: Great Food
By Samuel Pepys

'The most ordinary and the most extraordinary writer you will ever meet' 
Claire Tomalin

As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater and connoisseur of epicurean delights, who indulged in every pleasure seventeenth-century London had to offer.

'The most ordinary and the most extraordinary writer you will ever meet' 
Claire Tomalin

As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater and...

Published: 06/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241951125
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary Volume 3
Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143307358
RRP: $16.99
Book Cover: The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary Volume 2
Now with a whole new section of colour, this edition also gives the reader a taste of the new Wimpy Kid movie; due in April 2011.
Now with a whole new section of colour, this edition also gives the reader a taste of the new Wimpy Kid movie; due in April 2011.
Published: 21/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143306351
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover: The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood
In cinemas now\r\nView the trailer here \r\nWimpy Kid on Facebook
In cinemas now\r\nView the trailer here \r\nWimpy Kid on Facebook
Published: 29/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143305491
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Saul Bellow: Letters
By Saul Bellow & Benjamin Taylor

'Magnificent . . . The man is all here in this book, in this stunning, almost baffling plenitude.  Bellow's letters are one of Bellow's greatest books.' – The New York Times Book Reviews

'Magnificent . . . The man is all here in this book, in this stunning, almost baffling plenitude.  Bellow's letters are one of Bellow's greatest books.' – The New York Times Book Reviews

Published: 21/03/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143120469
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  No Easy Walk to Freedom
By Nelson Mandela
'There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires.'

After twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela finally walked free in February 1990. This collection of his articles, speeches, letters from underground, and the transcripts from his trials, vividly demonstrates...

'There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires.'

After twenty-seven...

Published: 30/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141439303
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
By Evelyn Waugh & Nancy Mitford

With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley

'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'
Independent on Sunday



With an Introduction by Charlotte Mosley

'Their correspondence can make you rock with helpless laughter'
Independent on Sunday



Published: 12/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141193922
RRP: $29.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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